Press Release tagged with "Commencement"

Touro College’s School of Health Sciences awarded degrees to 355 graduates at commencement ceremonies held at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at LIU Post, the largest campus of Long Island University, in Brookville, New York.

Central Islip, NY – Touro Law Center’s 2013 Commencement ceremony was held on Sunday, May 26, 2013 at The New York City Center and honored 238 new graduates of Touro Law including 228 JDs (including 1 Dual Degree JD/MBA and 1 Dual Degree JD/MPA), 8 LLMs in U.S. Legal Studies, and 2 LL.M. candidates.

New York, N.Y. – The Touro College and University System conferred an honorary doctorate to Alan Schoor, Touro’s outgoing senior vice president for operations, at the 41st annual commencement exercises of the Lander Colleges at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. Schoor will be joining the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty (MET Council) as executive director and CEO.

Touro University California will hold its 13th Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, June 2nd, during which 463 degree candidates will receive their diplomas at the Masonic Auditorium, 1111 California Street in San Francisco.

New York, N.Y. – The Touro College and University System conferred an honorary doctorate to Dr. Jay Sexter, the provost, CEO and vice president for academic affairs for the Harlem and Middletown, New York campuses of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM), at the 41st annual commencement exercises of the Lander Colleges at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. Dr. Sexter, who is retiring at the end of the 2015 academic year, led the effort to create Touro’s four schools of osteopathic medicine, which distinguished the institution as a national leader in physician education.

Amid cheering friends and family members with musical interludes provided by Harlem’s Cotton Club All Stars band, seventy-four graduating students of the second class of the Touro College of Pharmacy received their PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) degrees last week at commencement ceremonies held at the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM).

New York, NY – At the 41st Commencement Exercises of the New York School of Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Midtown Campus, commencement speaker, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, spoke passionately about becoming a person of substance, choosing friends wisely, and overcoming life’s obstacles. Adams cited the influx of European Jews, West Indians, and Puerto Ricans, who came to this country and “had to find a way to survive.”

Brooklyn, N.Y. – June 4, 2015 - At the commencement ceremony of the Brooklyn division of Touro College’s New York School of Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS), guest speakers, students, and administrators expressed their belief that education and hard work can change the destiny of a person, their community, their country, their world. The event took place at The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts. Vice-President and Executive Administrative Dean of NYSCAS Eva Spinelli presided over the ceremony.

Equipped with the knowledge and skills to succeed in their chosen professions, graduates of the Touro College School of Health Sciences (SHS) gathered for a joyous commencement ceremony Sept. 9 at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, Long Island.